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| last = 2024
| domain1 = zdnet.com
| rfc = [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 430#RfC: Red Ventures|Rfc]]
| rfcdate = 2024
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== Summary ==
ZDNet was acquired by digital marketing company Red Ventures in October 2020. There is consensus that ZDNet, along with other online properties of Red Ventures, is generally unreliable. Editors express concern that Red Ventures, as a matter of policy, uses AI-authored content on its properties in a non-transparent and unreliable manner. ZDNET was purchased by Ziff Davis in August 2024, which may mean that the reasons for considering it unreliable may no longer apply.
== Excerpt ==
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== Discussions ==
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=== Links ===
==== RSN ====
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 401#Is ZDNet still reliable?]]
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 424#Something strange is going on with ZDNet]]
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 453#CNET and ZDNET are now under Ziff Davis ownership. Should they get a new chance or continue be considered too unreliable?]]
=== Recency ===
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=== Rfcs ===
# 2024 [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 430#RfC: Red Ventures|Rfc]]
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== Original table row for comparison ==
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|- class="s-gu" id="ZDNet (October 2020–present)"
| [[ZDNET]] (October 2020{{snd}}present)
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| {{rsnl|430|RfC: Red Ventures|2024|rfc=y}}
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| ZDNet was acquired by digital marketing company Red Ventures in October 2020. There is consensus that ZDNet, along with other online properties of Red Ventures, is generally unreliable. Editors express concern that Red Ventures, as a matter of policy, uses AI-authored content on its properties in a non-transparent and unreliable manner. ZDNET was purchased by Ziff Davis in August 2024, which may mean that the reasons for considering it unreliable may no longer apply.
| {{WP:RSPUSES|zdnet.com}}
|}